David Clarkson

DAVID CLARKSON (MFA) has worked in a wide variety of visual media, frequently addressing affects of technology and perception. He has exhibited internationally since 1980; some selected venues include: the 18th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil; Derek Eller Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, The Drawing Center, and MoMA P.S.1, New York; Kunstraumno.10, Dusseldorf; CA2M, Centro de Arte de Mayo, Madrid; Photographers’ Gallery, and Compton Verney Museum, England; S.L. Simpson Gallery, YYZ, Art Gallery of Peterborough, and 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects, Canada.
His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, Parachute, Bomb, and The New York Times; and has featured in various art catalogs and books, among them; Community of Images Strategies of Appropriation in Canadian Art, 1977-1990 (2022), Abstract Painting in Canada (2007) and Post-Hypnotic (1999). His writing has been published in Flash Art, Canadian Art, Parachute, Impulse, and Bomb magazines, and the exhibition catalog, Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld (2015), New Museum, New York.
Clarkson moved to Toronto from New York in 2010 and teaches interdisciplinary art in Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Art at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.